by EditorM

Turn, turn, turn

Thanks to Targuman for sending this in, with illuminating comment.

That idea, and its expression as “nothing new under the sun”, is most prominent to our contemporary culture from the book which Targuman (and scholars of the Hebrew Bible) refers to as Qohelet (The Teacher), also known to most of us as Ecclesiastes (The Preacher) — famous for collaborating with Pete Seeger on that song. :-)

Though that is the most familiar source, what are the chances it was actually the first? Hard to say, after several thousand years. However, somebody had to be first. And in that very moment they were making it false, since there was now something new: that very thought.

So that gives a fun-paradox! But … is it really a case of hypocrisy?

by EditorM

Some random retro LOLs

This next one depends on remembering when Lars von Trier and friends declared the Dogme 95 principles for filmmaking. (And probably does not require remembering the Kevin Smith film Dogma.)

With this December 2011 Brevity, we’re getting a bit into OYs.

And we interrupt our parade of Oldies to drop in a Duffy Lug Nuts on the same theme from current GoComics publication:

by multipleciduers

Sunday Funnies – LOLs, April 23rd, 2023

Maybe 2008, but still not an early adopter.

Last week — 4th wall needed for a watching-the-news story. (It’s just the date formatting that makes this look like a panel from the future.)

The joke is somewhat spoiled (or at least delayed) by the way the sightlines are drawn. But it emerges that what sound like rules for a tweenage girl being left home alone are being directed to Baby Bear (the dog); who isn’t agreeing to them.
(And yes, still downloads from WaPo as .AVIF and needs pre-converting.)

And this Wondermark is not really much of a LOL, but it does provide a chuckle, and prompts me to remember encountering another sense of “Bridge club” in some novels of British India (probably Paul Scott) — it was a party with several ethnic groups invited, and intended to bridge the cultural gaps.

by EditorM

The sine qua non

In this 2009 PC and Pixel, it seems to be Pixel from within his carrier dispensing the wisdom. But what is he agreeing with? That computer customers just want Internet connectivity? Or want no options so they need not make decisions?

And what is grabbing everyone’s attention?

And BTW, how many other cat cartoon protagonists deign to be confined to a carrier?

by EditorM

Continuity, please?

And by the bye, is “More’s Law”
an accidental typo for “Moore’s Law” ;
an intentional misspelling, meant to direct us to think about some actual person named “More” ;
or an intentional misspelling, meant to direct us to the concept of having more rather than less?

Note that the quote about loneliness and solitude is from poet Marianne Moore. But if that’s what’s meant, it would still be Moore not More. So if it were written here as “More’s Law” there might be a joke that the Girl takes it to mean Marianne Moore rather than the late Gordon Moore.

But we can’t really make that emendation, as we would lose the relevance of “more” to the idea of the biggest milkshake. Which is itself still in need of some explication.